Science: Dice's Mice

President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan peered
patiently at the caged mouse in his living room. It rummaged among the
shavings for tidbits. It reared and looked Dr. Little in the eye. But
it did not sing for him, as Professor Lee R. Dice had said it could.
Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly
trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously
as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a
few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the
Mendelian stock of...